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Many of you may remember how I brokered a domain name a few years ago by selling it for $200,000, receiving a $20,000 referral cut. I wrote about how I was able to do that only because I took advantage of an opportunity.

This morning I accepted an envelope from FedEx. In it was a cheque for $14,864.60 from Escrow.com, which is $15,000 minus their fees.

I earned this cheque the exact same way I earned the other one – by grasping an opportunity. In this post I will share with you exactly how I turned a $2,000 investment into over $15,000. But more importantly, I will teach you through example the importance of taking advantage of opportunities when they pass your way.

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The Acquisitions

On May 19th, 2007, Blizzard announced that they were going to make a sequel to their popular game Starcraft. For years, people speculated that a Starcraft 2 might be in the works, but after 9 years of waiting with still no word or hint from Blizzard of actually doing so, people started to give up hope.

So when they announced that Starcraft 2 was officially in the works, Starcraft fans around the world (me being one of them) were hysterical. I published a blog post as soon as I learned about the announcement and how I immediately went to purchase some Starcraft and Starcraft 2 domain names.

Now, while I managed to get my hands on a dozen or so Starcraft domain names simply by paying the registration fees, since the game was so popular and people were already anticipating and waiting for Starcraft 2 before the official announcement, the domains Starcraft2.net and SC2.net were already taken.

I really wanted a good Starcraft 2 domain though, and I knew that I had to move fast because if I didn’t, there would be others like me who would be contacting the owners and making them offers.

For the Starcraft2.net domain, I acquired the domain after a few back and forth e-mail exchanges. At first, the owner, a teenager around 17 or 18 or so, didn’t want to sell it. He was too set on developing the site into a fan site. He did show some weakness interest in my offers, but finally said that he wasn’t interested in selling it.

The next day he e-mailed me back basically saying that he might be interested in selling it after all, but it would have to be $1,000. I guess he thought that number was high I agreed right away and sent him the money via PayPal immediately. He seemed overjoyed to have actually received $1,000 (I guess he thought it was too good to be true or that I wouldn’t really pay or something) and was very happy with the sale. So was I. Maybe he should have read my post on The Art of Negotiation :-)

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For SC2.net, I believe I e-mailed the owner but he wanted to talk to me through the phone.

Now, I’m actually a pretty shy guy and usually prefer to use E-mail or instant messengers rather then the phone, especially when it comes to business. This is partly because I’m too nice on the phone and in person and often tend to make poor deals, give too much information, and just generally become too soft. I’m hard as stone online but just way too nice on the phone and in person.

But I already acquired the Starcraft2.net domain and I knew that SC2.net would be the perfect domain pair for it, so I prepared myself and phoned him.

He actually turned out to be some government official who worked at the South African Honorary Consulate and was very nice. I ended up mailing him a cheque because he had some issue with his PayPal account, and a week later I also owned SC2.net.

It was good that I moved fast not only to block out other bids, but to prevent their knowledge of the value of the domain. My thinking appears to have been correct because when I spoke to the owner of SC2.net, I found out that he only bought it because it was a short domain name – not from any relation to Starcraft 2. If I had waited longer to contact him, it is likely that other interested buyers would have contacted him and tipped him off that it was actually a great domain for Starcraft 2.

It’s funny, because as I look over my old blog post about that acquisition, I wrote:

“It will take about a week before it’s in my hands though due to the escrow process. Ugh, I paid a lot for the domain. Exactly how much, I won’t say, at least not yet. Help calm me down by saying it’s a good domain please “

I paid $653.37 (I believe the weird amount was due to the US/CDN exchange rate based on our original deal) for it, which right now seems like a steal, but I guess I can see my apprehension at the time.
The Development

I didn’t do much in terms of developing Starcraft2.net due to being so busy with other project, but I did know that I wanted to put up a forum to at least do something with it’s traffic.

I can’t remember the exact amount I spent on developing the site, but I believe I paid around $135 for the vBulletin license (I get good “bulk” discounts since I own so many licenses), a few hundred for the skin, and around $150 for a vBSEO license.

When you add up everything, including the other dozen or so Starcraft domains I bought, I invested roughly $2,300.
The Sales

First, I made roughly $900 by selling private ads and running AdSense on the site. That isn’t much over a span of 3 years, but that more than covered for paying for everything minus the Starcraft2.net and SC2.net domains.

I also sold a few of the domains I bought at the registration fee rate ($7 each per year or so). I sold StarcraftHelp.com for $400 and Starcraft-Forums.com for $300, but since I used Sedo to sell those two, I only made a total of $600 since Sedo takes enormous fees. But I only spent around $40 for those 2 domains (I usually register domains for multiple years) to make $600, so they were a good investment. 10

I can’t remember for certain, but I also think I sold at least one other domain through NamePros and/or DNForum as well.

And then, we come to the rest of the package.

On July 25th, 2010, I created a public auction on Flippa for a package sale which included Starcraft2.net, SC2.net and the remaining domains, which were:

* StarcraftForums.info
* StarcraftForums.net
* StarcraftForum.net
* StarcraftForum.org
* StarcraftForum.info
* StarcraftTips.com
* StarcraftCheats.net
* StarcraftBoards.com
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